Dictionary
Abbreviations and Soviet Neologisms
Bulgaria
| BKP | = Bulgarian Communist Party. |
| BSDP | = Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party. |
| BRSDP | = Bulgarian Workers’ Social-Democratic Party. |
| BZNS | = Bulgarian Agrarian People’s Union. |
| NRPS | = Independent Workers’ Professional Unions. |
| OF | = Fatherland Front. |
| RP | = Workers’ Party. |
| RMS | = Workers’ Youth Union. |
| TsK BKP | = Central Committee of Bulgarian Communist Party. |
Czechoslovakia
| KSČ | = Czechoslovak Communist Party. |
| DTJ | = Workers’ Physical Education Club. |
Romania
| AGȚR | = General Association of Gypsies in Romania. |
| AUGRR | = Association General Union of Roma in Romania. |
| PNC | = National Christian Party. |
| PNL | = National Liberal Party. |
| PNL Brătianu | = National Liberal Party – Ion I. C. Brătianu Fraction. |
| PNȚ | = National Peasant Party. |
| PNP | = National People’s Party, or the Popular Party. |
| UGRR | = General Union of Roma in Romania. |
USSR
| APO | = Department for Agitation and Propaganda at TsK VKP(b). |
| Artel | = Producers’ Cooperative. |
| ChK / CheKa | = Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage. |
| VChK | = All-Russian ChK at the SNK RSFSR. |
| Detgiz | = State Publishing House for Children’s Literature. |
| Fedkomzem | = Federal Committee about Issues of Land at VTsIK. |
| GIKhL | = State Publishing House for Fiction Literature. |
| Glaviskusstvo. | = Main Department for Fiction and Art of the Narkompros of the RSFSR (1928–1933). |
| Glavlit | = General Directorate for Literature and Publishing at the Narkompros RSFSR. |
| Glavnauka | = Central Administration for Scientific, Scholarly-Artistic, and Museum Institutions. |
| Goslitizdat | = State Publishing House for Fiction Literature. |
| Gosplan | = The State Planning Committee. |
| GPU | = State Political Directorate at NKVD RSFSR. |
| GULAG | = Main Directorate of Camps at NKVD. |
| Ispolkom | = Executive Committee of Council of People’s Deputies. |
| Krayispolkom | = Executive Committee of Kray. |
| Oblispolkom | = Executive Committee of Oblast. |
| Rayispolkom | = Executive Committee of Rayon. |
| Gorispolkom | = City’s Executive Committee. |
| Kogiz | = Bookselling Association of State Publishers. |
| Kolkhoz | = Collective Farm. |
| Kolkhozsoyuz | = Union of Agricultural Collectives. |
| Kolkhoztsentr | = All-Union Union of Agricultural Collectives of the USSR. |
| Komsomol | = Young Communist League. |
| RLKSM | = Russian Lenin’s Young Communist League (in 1922 renamed to VLKSM). |
| VLKSM | = All-Union Leninist Young Communist League. |
| Komzet | = Committee for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land at Presidium of the VTsIK. |
| Kulak | = Literally ‘fist’; this is how wealthy peasants, who put in economic dependence and exploited their fellow peasants, were called in the early USSR. |
| KPSS | = Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| KUTV | = Communist University of the Toilers of the East. |
| Likbez | = Campaign of Eradication of Illiteracy in Soviet Union. |
| Medgiz | = State Medical Publishing House. |
| MOIK | = Executive Committee of Moscow. |
| MONO | = Moscow City’s Department for People’s Education. |
| Mossovet | = Moscow’ City Soviet of People’s Deputies. |
| MOZO | = Moscow Regional Agricultural Department. |
| MTS | = Machine Tractor Station (a state enterprise for maintenance of agricultural machinery). |
| Narkom | = People’s Commissar, |
| Narkompros | = People’s Commissariat of Education of the RSFSR. |
| Narkomzem | = People’s Commissariat of Agriculture of USSR. |
| Natsmen | = Member of National Minority. |
| NKVD | = People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of RSFSR. |
| OblONO | = Department for People’s Education at Oblastlevel. |
| OGPU | = Joint State Political Directorate at SNK USSR. |
| Orgburo | = Organisational Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
| Partizdat | = Publishing House for Political Literature at the TsK VKP(b). |
| Pioneer | = Member of the All-Union Pioneer Organisation, mass youth organisation in the USSR. |
| Politburo | = Political Bureau of TsK VKP(b). |
| Profizdat | = The Soviet Trade-unions Publishing House. |
| Rabfak | = Workers’ Faculty (an educational institution that prepared workers to higher education). |
| Red corner | = literally ‘little red corner’ ( |
| RSFSR | = Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. |
| Selkhozgiz | = State Publishing House of Agricultural Literature. |
| Selsoviet | = Village council, local self-administration, a part of the Soviet system of administration. |
| SNK / Sovnarkom | = Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR (from 1922 of the RSFSR). |
| Little Sovnarkom | = Standing Committee to SNK. |
| Sovkhoz | = State Farm. |
| Sovnarkhoz | = Soviet for National Economy. |
| SSP | = Union of Soviet Writers. |
| Stakhanovets | = A title that refers to labour modelled after the example of miner Alexey Stakhanov, who was known for producing more than it was required, by working harder and more efficient. |
| Tsentrizdat | = Central Publishing House of the Peoples of the USSR at TsIK USSR. TsK KPSS. Central Committee of Communist Party of USSR. |
| TsK VKP(b) | = Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
| TsIK | = Central Executive Committee of SSSR. |
| SN TsIK | = Council of Nationalities at TsIK SSSR. |
| TsIK UkrSSR | = Central Executive Committee of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. |
| Tsygkhimprom | = Gypsy artel for chemical products. |
| Tsygpishcheprom | = Gypsy artel for food products. |
| Uchpedgiz | = State Pedagogical Publishing House of the Narkompros. |
| USSR | = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
| VKP(b) | = All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). |
| Kraykom | = Kray Committee of VKP(b). |
| Obkom | = Oblast Committee of VKP(b). |
| Raykom | = Rayon Committee of VKP(b). |
| VKSS | = Higher Courses of Soviet Construction at the VTsIK. |
| VOKS | = All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. |
| VPK | = All-Union Resettlement Committee. |
| VTsIK | = All-Russian Central Executive Committee. |
| ON VTsIK | = of Nationalities of VTsIK. |
| VSTs | = All-Russian Union of Gypsies. |
| VTsSPS | = All-Union Central Council of Professional Unions. |